"The Human race nearly ended with the millennium: in 2000 A.D., a top-secret encounter between an Antarctic expedition and an entity code-named the "Angel" triggered a global catastrophe. Now, in 2015, the Angels have returned, and Shiniji Ikari, a fourteen-year-old child of the new Earth, is summoned to the super-technological city of Tokyo-3 by his long-estranged mother, the supreme commander of the clandestine United Nations research organization NERV. To match the fearsome power of the Angels, NERV has constructed a biomechanical weapon code-named "Evangelion"--a monster to be piloted by the unwitting Shinji!"
Reads just like the back of the Manga, right?
Well... not quite. You see, Shinji is the heir of a legacy that nearly died in 2000. The legacy of the greatest martial artist who ever lived. Shinji just doesn't know it... yet.